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A theoretical model is developed to describe the process of fine sediment infiltration into immobile coarse sediment deposits. The governing equations are derived from mass conservation and the assumption that the amount of fine sediment deposition per unit vertical travel distance into the deposit is either constant or increases with increasing fine sediment fraction. Model results demonstrate that fine sediment accumulation decreases rapidly with depth into coarse substrate initially void of fine sediment, which is consistent with experimental observations that significant fine sediment infiltration occurs to only a shallow depth. Comparisons of the theory with flume data indicate that the model adequately reproduced the weighted-averaged fine sediment fraction values from experiments. An early model developed by Sakthivadivel and Einstein for fine sediment infiltration is in part based on the generally incorrect assumption that intragravel flow remains constant following fine sediment infiltration. Applying a correction to the Sakthivadivel and Einstein model based on alternate hypothesis that introgravel flow is driven by a constant head gives similar results as the proposed model.
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